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…t it, to penetrate such sanctuaries as are guarded from the profane, to make such relations with its inhabitants as may avail to acquire knowledge and power, or to command service 5 ail this is a question of the general Magical attainment of the student. He must be absolutely at ease in his Body of Light, and hâve made it invulnérable. He must be adept in assuming ali God- forms, in using ail weapons, sigils, gestures, words, and signs. He must be familiar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. He must be alert, sensitive, an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…MEKH Theurgia Goetia Summa (CONGRESSUS CUM DAEMONE) sub figura DCCC being the Ritual employed by the Beast 666 for the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel during the Semester of His performance of the Operation of the Sacred Magick of ABRAMELIN THE MAGE. (Prepared An XVII © in np at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalædium by the Beast 666 in service to FRATER PROGRA- DIOR.) OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of A.-. A.-. Class D for the Grade of Adeptus Minor. — 265 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…r” seizes the Sacred Lance. Bacchus becomes Pan. The Holy Guar¬ dian Angel is the Unconscious Créature Self — the Spiritual Phallus. His knowledge and Conversa¬ tion contributes occult puberty. It is therefore advisable to replace the name Asar Un-nefer by that of Ra-Hoor-Khuit at the outset, and by that of one’s own Holy Guardian Angel when it has been communicated. He hails Him as BESZ, the Matter that destroys and devours Godhead, for the purpose of the Incarnation of any God. He hails Him as APOPHRASZ, the Motion that destroys and devours G…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…died as a science, sceptically, with the utmost energy and patience. The A A possesses the secrets of successj it makes no secret of its knowledge, and if its secrets are not everywhere known and practised, it is because the abuses connected with the name of occult science disincline official investigators to examine the evidence at their disposai. This paper has been written not only with the object of attracting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A.'. A.*, as the basis for the next g…
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
…d him; for the Tiphereth-consciousness alone is connected by paths with the various parts of his mind. 1 None therefore save He hath the knowledge requisite for calculating the combinations of conduct which will organise and equilibrate the forces of the Adept, against the moment when it becomes necessary to confront the Abyss. The Adept must control a compact and cohérent mass if he is to make sure of hurling it from him with a clean-cut gesture. I, The Beast 666, lift up my voice and swear that I myself hâve been brought hither by mine Angel.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…osophical conceptions, of poetic splendour and intense passion, while concealing in the letters and words a complex cipher involving the knowledge of facts never tili then existing in any human mind, and depending on the control of the arm of the scribe, though He thought Fie was writing consciously from dictation; and to weave into a single pattern so many threads of proof of different orders that every type of mind, so it be but open and just, may be sure of the existence of AIWAZ as a being independent of body, conscious and individual, with…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
… certain types of phenomena. (Thus, symbols, the Qabalah, etc. enable us to communicate with whom we choose.) 7) “Astral” Beings possess knowledge and power of a different kind from our own; their “universe” is presumably of a different kind from ours, in some respects. (Our idea “bone” is not the same as a dog’s; a short-sighted man sees things differently to one of normal vision.) It is more convenient to assume the objective existence of an “Angel” who gives us new knowledge than to allégé that our invocation has awakened a supernormal power…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…eptship, or Attainment, or Initiation, or Mastership, or Union with God, or Spiritual Development, or Mahatmaship, or Freedom, or Occult Knowledge, or whatever he may call his inmost need of Truth, of our Order of A.-. A.*. It is designed principally to awake interest in the possibilités of human progress, and to proclaim the principles of the A A The outline given of the several successive steps is exact; the two crises — the Angel and the Abyss — are necessary features in every career. The other tasks are not always accomplished in the order …
1930 · PDF PAGE 23
…ee methods of reducing the manifold consciousness to the Unity. Adapted to facilitate the task of the Attainment of Raja-Yoga and of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Equinox VII, p. 101. Liber DCCCXXXV1L The Law of Liberty. This is a further explanation of the Book of the Law in reference to certain Ethical problems. Equinox XI (vol. III, No. 1), p. 45. Liber DCCCLX. John St. John. The Record of the Magical Retirement of G. H. Frater O .*. M A model of what a magical record should be, so far as accurate analysis and fu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
…ondences on the Tree of Life, as may be studied in detail in the Book 777. Strident. — His business is to acquire a general intellectua! knowledge of ail Systems of attainment, as declared in the prescribed books. (See curriculum in Appendix I.)
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
…to invoke the Higher Genius. Pages 208-233 — Ritual of Initiation, with explanation of the same. Pages 269-272 — Ritual of obtaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel by the formula of I.A.O. Pages 272-278 — Ritual to make one’s self invisible. Number IV. — Pages 43-196 — Treatise, with model Records, of Mental Training appropriate to the Magician. 207 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…ysi- cal life, the triangle of Soûl being entwined with that of Body; M is the silence of “death”; GN is the nasal sound of génération & knowledge. “Identical Point!” “Nuith ! Hadith ! Ra-Hoor-Khuit ! ” “Hail, Great Wild Beast!” “Hail, I A O ! ” I. Sacred to AHAThOOR. The idea is that of the Female conceived as invulnérable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity etc. — 270 — obedient unto Me. Sec lion F. Hear Me: AFT ABAFT BAS-AUMGN. ISAK SA-BA-FT
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…Individuality is inscrut- able and inviolable. In the Néophyte Ritual of 1. Any such formula should be used only when the adept has full knowledge based on experîence of the management of such matters. — 274 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…s. — Is expected to show mastery of Pratyahara and Dharana. Adeptus (without). — Is expected to perform the Great Work and to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Adeptus (within). — Is admitted to the practice of the formula of the Rosy Cross on entering the College of the Holy Ghost. Adeptus (Major). — Obtains a general mastery of practical Magick, though without compréhension. Adeptus (Exemptus). — Complétés in perfection ail these mat- ters. He then either (a) becomes a Brother of the Left Hand Path or, (b) is s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…rove their identity by testimony beyond rebuttal. Ail explana- tions other than these are of value only as extending and equi- Jibrating Knowledge, or possibly as supplying Energy to such Magicians as may hâve found their way to the Sources of Strength. In ail cases, naught is worth an obol save as it serve to help the One Great Work. He who would reach Intelligences of the type under discussion may expect extreme difficulty. The paths are guarded; there is a lion in the way. Technical expertness will not serve here; it is necessary to satisfy …
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…, and the Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soûl of the Adept. Here is summed the entire process of bringing the conditioned Universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of génération1 ; a soûl implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them aware of their Inmate, and thus to partake of its own conscious- ness of the Light. “Grâce” has here its proper sense of “Pleasant- I. That is, Yod Hé realizing Themselves, Will and Undcrstanding, m the twias Vau Hé, Mind and Body. 288 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
…that the true Formula3 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus : INVOKE OFTEN 4 So may ail men corne at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,) to 93. And EIIH, “Words”, (whence “Epie”) has also that value: EIAE TA EUH might be the phrase here intended: its number is 418. This would …
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
introduced by the accidents of environment, and that his Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel destroys ail doubts and delusions, confers ail blessings, teaches ail truth, and containa ail delights. But it is important that the Adept should not rest in mere inexpressible realization of his rapture, but rouse himself to make the relation submit to analysis, to render it in rational terms, and thereby enlighten his mind and heart in a sense as superior to fanatical enthusiasm as Beethoven’s music is to West African war-drums. Sect…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
… at the end of his work. This shall moreover encourage him in Magick, to recall that indeed there was One who attained by its use to the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, the which forsook him no more, but made Him a Magus, the Word of the Aeon of Horus ! For know this, that the Name IAF in its most secret and mighty sense declareth the Formula of the Magick of the BEAST whereby he wrought many wonders. And because he doth will that the whole world shall attain to this Art, He now hideth it herein so that the worthy may win…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…with intolérance and insanely disordered energy which is yet so powerful as to effect the destinies of empires. But the phenomena of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel are a side issue ; the essence of the Union is the intimacy. Their intimacy (or rather identity) is independent of ail partial forms of expression ; at its best it is therefore as inarticulate as Love. The intensity of the consummation will more probably compel a sob or a cry, some natural physical gesture of animal sympathy with the spiritual spasm. This i…